David Sanford "Sandy" Gottesman met Warren Buffett in 1962 and became one of the earliest investors in Berkshire Hathaway. "Anyone who came in contact with Warren bought the stock. It was one of the clearest decisions a person could make," Gottesman said decades later. A Harvard Business School grad, Gottesman started investment firm First Manhattan Co. in 1964; it has long held Berkshire shares for

clients. His son Robert Gottesman now runs the company, which has more than $20 billion in assets under management and, like Buffett, is known for its buy-and-hold, value investing approach. Sandy and his wife Ruth donated $25 million to Yeshiva University medical school in 2008. Gottesman is a vice chairman on the board of trustees for New York City's American Museum of Natural History.

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